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than the s,clsest patient in Bellevue Hos

pital.
But as to our soul, we will cross right
over, not waiting for obsequies, independ-
ent of obituary, into state IN every way
! better, with wider room and velocities be-
You'd computation; the dullest of US into
companionship with the very best spirits
| in their very best mood, in the very parlor
Of the universe, the four walls FURNISHED
and paneled and pictured and glorified
| with all the splendors that the infinite
! God in all the ages has been able to in
vent. Victoryl
| This view of course makes it Of but lit
| tie Importance whether we are cremated
or sepultured. If the latter is dust to
| dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If any
prefer incineration let them have it with
out caricature. The world may become so
| crowded that cremation may be univer-
sally adopted by law as well as by general
consent Many of the mightiest and best
| spirits have gone through this process.
| Thousands and tens of thousands of
Gods children have been cremated-
P. T. Bliss and wife, the evangelistic
| singers, cremated by accident at Ashta-
bula bridge; John Rodgers, cremated by
| persecution; Latimer aud Ridley, cremat-
ed at Oxford; Potninus and Bllndina, a
| slave, and Alexander, a physician, and
their comrades, cremated at the order OF
Marcus Aurelius-at least one hundred
thousand of Christ's disciples cremated-
and there can be no doubt about the re-
surrection Of their bodies.
| If the world lasts as much longer as il
has already been built, there perha ps
may be no room for the large acreage set
apart for the resting places, but that
time has not come. Plenty of room yet,
and the race need not pass that bridge of
fire until it comes to it. The most of us
prefer the old way. But whether out OF
natural disintegration or cremation, we
shall get that luminous, buoyant, glad
some, transcendent, magnificent, mex
plicable structure called the resurrection
body, you will have it, / will have it.
say to you to-day, as Paul said to Agrip-
pa:
Why should it be thought thing incredible
with you that God should raise the dead.
The far-up cloud, higher than the hawk
flies. higher than the eagle flies, what is il
made off Drops of water from the Hud
son, other drops from the East River, other
drops from stagnant pool out on Newark
flats-up yonder there, and embodied in {
cloud, and the sun kindles it. II God car
make such a lustrous cloud of water
and fetched from miles away, can he MOI
transport the fragments of the human
body from the earth, and out Of them builC
a radiant bodya Can not God, who own.
all the material out of which bones ant
muscle and flesh are made, set them W
again if they have fallen? If a manufact
urer of telescopes drop telescope on thu
floor, and it breaks, can he not memo
it again so you can see through
it, And if God drops the human
eye into the dust, the eye which
he originally fashioned, can he no
restore it'll Aye, if the manufacturer O
the telescope, by a change Of the glass and
a change of focus, can make better glass
than that which was originally con-
structed, and actually improve it, do you
not think the fashioner of the human ey,
may improve its sight and multiply tn
natural eye by the thousand-fold addition
al force Of the resurrection eyea
Why should it be thought a thing incredible
with you that God should raise the deads
/ Things all around US suggest it. Out o
what grew all these flowers! Out of the
mold and the earth. Rssurrectei! Rssur
rectedl The radiant butterfly, where dit
it come from! The loathsome cater pillar
That albatross that smites the tempes
with Its wing, where did it come from!
! senseless she'll
Near Bergerac, France, in Celtic oml
; under block, were found flower see
that had been buried two thousand years
The explorer took the flower seed an
planted it, and it came up; it bloomed i
bluebell and heliotrope. Two thousan
years ago buried, yet resurrectedl
traveller says he found in a mummy
pit in Egypt garden peas that had bee
buried there three thousand years age
He brought them out. and on the 4th q
, June, 1874, he planted them, and in thiIt
days they sprang up. Buried three thor
sand years, yet resurrected.
Why should it be thought thing incredibl
with you that God should raise the deads
. Where did all this silk come from-th
silk that adorns your persons and you
honest In the hollow of a staff Gree
missionary brought from China to Europ
: the progenitors Of those worms that mo-
supply the silk markets of many nations
: The pageantry of hammered host and tn
; luxurious articles of commercial emp,
rum blazing out from the silk worm.
; And who shall be surprised At out Of tn
: Insignificant earthly body, this INSIGHT
. can't earthly life, our bodies unfold int
!. something worthy of the coming etern
ties.
Put silver into diluted nitre and it di
solves. Is the silver gone forever. M
,, Put in some pieces of copper and the silve
:. reappears. II one force dissolves, anotht
!. force organizes.
Why should it be thought thing incredib
with you that God should raise the dead!
!, The insects flew and the worms crawle
last autumn feebler and feebler, and the
stopped. They have taken no food; the
: want none. They lay dormant and il
sensible, but soon the south wind wi
4 blow the resurrection trumpet, and til
= air and the earth will be full of them I
= you not think that Col can do as muc
for our bodies as he does for the was,
!, and the spiders and the snailsa Tn
!, morning at 4:30 o'clock there was resu
: rection. Out of the night the day. In
: few weeks there will be resurrectic
! in all our gardens. Why not some ds
. resurrection amid all the gravesa
Ever and anon there are instances
men and women entrance1. A trance
= death followed by resurrection after
= few days; total suspension of ment
power and acJion. Rev. Wi
= lam Tennent, great evangeli
: of the last generation, of who
u Dr. Archibald Alex lnder, man far fro